you are watching this at home and you are discouraged and you are feeling we just reelected barack obama, what the heck is going on? you have to get involved yourself. go down and join your local democratic party in your county or town. i can guarantee you if you show up at next month's meeting of the county or town democrats, there won't be ten people there. bring ten of your friends and you will become your county's democratic party. >> jennifer: and a lot of them will be old people and they will be so happy to see young people coming in too. >> yes they will. we moved up north to [ inaudible ] county, and when we moved up there, back in the early part of the last decade, there was a total of four dues paying members of the democratic party in northern michigan so my wife and i went to work on this, and within a year we had almost 300 members of the dues paying party. so you can make this happen. we hold the power -- >> jennifer: i got to inject something, though. because in antrum county in northern michigan, it is a conservative area, and michael and his wife kathleen have come in an